News from August 2005
It's just the first step
On the hunt for the campaign cash that thrust him into office, Governor Rod Blagojevich promised Illinois’ deep-pocketed plaintiff’s bar he was no friend of tort reform.
A man for no seasons
One of the most honored films of the past 40 years is the 1966 multiple Oscar winner, “A Man for All Seasons.” Telling the heroic tale of Sir Thomas More, the film won Academy Awards for direction, editing, Robert Bolt’s adaption of his own play, Best Actor for Paul Schofield, and finally, Best Picture.
Protect marriage by amendment
To the editor:
On our dime
tardy Exactly one hour and four minutes after Governor Blagojevich was to have shown for the medical malpractice bill signing, a legislator, cell phone handy, called the governor’s chief of staff and demanded, “Where the heck is he?”
New Lawsuits: Thursday, Aug. 25
James R. Baxter v. Ronald P. Anderson, Daniel Dropeski
Victims and trial lawyers would have preferred veto
'Patients for Justice' Kathy Ghawi shows pictures of her husband who had the wrong side of his brain operated on. For some, enactment of medical liability reform is a cruel reality.
On heels of reform, Chamber pushes for more
Echoes of praise rung from major backers of medical liability reform after Governor Rod Blagojevich signed reform legislation into law Thursday.
Saint Anthony's in Alton hosts historic signing
Dr. Burger An against-all-odds legislative victory for medical liability reform advocates unfolded as Governor Rod Blagojevich finally signed the state's medical liability reform bill into law Thursday. It would have automatically become law Friday had he not signed it.
Frye motion could be magic bullet for asbestos defense
Justice Raymond Cornelius Defendants in asbestos litigation may have discovered a magic bullet.
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At 22, cases stall for super plaintiff Eavenson
At the peak of the class action craze in Madison County, Granite City chiropractor Mark Eavenson filed 22 class action complaints against companies for paying him less than he billed for treatments.
Matoesian rejects defense argument, 'Byron did it'
Just because one Madison County judge throws out a suit complaining that a motel failed to prevent violence does not mean his counterpart will do the same.
Silicosis suit moves north out of Madison County to Dairy State
Madison County Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian has sent a silicosis lawsuit filed by a Mount Vernon man who was exposed in Brillion, Wisc. out of the land of Lincoln north to the dairy state of Wisconsin.
Parents sue elementary school district for son's abuse on bus
The parents of an Abraham Lincoln elementary school student in Belleville School District 118 allege their son was sexually assaulted by other students while riding a bus home on Feb. 5, according to a lawsuit filed in St. Clair County Circuit Court Aug. 17.
41st Vioxx suit filed in St. Clair County
On the day a Texas jury awarded $253 million to a widow who blamed her husband's death on his use of the pain relieving drug Vioxx, besieged manufacturer Merck was the target of another lawsuit leveled against it in St. Clair County Circuit Court.
New Lawsuits: Wednesday, Aug. 24
Deborah Tarrant and James Tarrant v. Monica Campbell
Widow sues over husband's prostate cancer death
Failure to diagnose prostate cancer has led a widow to sue Staunton Family Practice and its physicians Rajneesh S. Jain, M.D., Manish Mathur, M.D. and Bryan Siegfried, M.D. in Madison County Circuit Court.
Med mal suit filed against Edwards, M.D. and Saint Anthony's
Sandra Dillinger claims her physician Steven Edwards, M.D. and Saint Anthony's Good Samaritan Center in Alton were negligent for not treating an injury she sustained between February and September 2003.
Driving instructor sued by former student for crashing Saab
Site of driving accident. Driving instructor Drew Barnholtz is being sued for crashing a former student's 2001 Saab 93 Turbo during a lap around Gateway International Raceway in Collinsville.